Phil Matier: Whitman & Brown In A Dead Heat
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Republican Meg Whitman has already shattered the national record for spending the most personal money on a political campaign at $119 million and counting. What it's bought her is a tie.
Democrat Jerry Brown, running for California governor, and Democrat Barbara Boxer, seeking re-election as one of California's two U.S. senators, have finished ahead of their Republican opponents for the first time in 2 months of CBS 5 KPIX-TV tracking polls, according to the latest poll data released Wednesday.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman described Fresno as a lot like the economically depressed city of Detroit when discussing what the recession has done to one of California's largest cities.
Opponents of a controversial San Francisco budget reform measure that would raise city employee health care and pension contributions got the support Wednesday of another public official, state Sen. Leland Yee.
Emergency legislation has been introduced in Sacramento to help victims of the San Bruno pipeline explosion and fire.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders will continue their budget talks in Santa Monica as the governor recovers from a cold.
Eight current and former officials of the city of Bell appeared in shackles before judges Wednesday in a corruption case prosecutors said was so ingrained in the blue-collar suburb that almost anyone who could have blown the whistle was benefiting from it.
San Francisco voters may be asked to decide whether to charge booze wholesalers and distributors a new alcohol fee.
KCBS and San Francisco Chronicle insider Phil Matier says Meg Whitman's stance on gay marriage and anti-illegal immigration legislation is keeping her former EBay boss from voting for her as California's Governor.
The state's recently refurbished death chamber at San Quentin State Prison will be ready for a planned execution next week if a federal judge lifts the five-year moratorium on capital punishment in California, according to officials.
A San Francisco supervisor said Tuesday he wants to make it city law that party promoters who want to host events at clubs register online with the city.
San Francisco supervisors Tuesday voted to expand the city's ban on tobacco sales by stores with pharmacies to include larger grocery and big-box stores.
The mayor and former city manager of Bell were led away in handcuffs Tuesday, charged with six other officials with taking more than $5.5 million from the working-class suburb in a scandal that triggered nationwide outrage and calls for more transparency in government.
